Schistocephalus solidus

About Schistocephalus solidus

The hermaphrodite cestode Schistocephalus solidus is a parasite of fish, fish-eating birds and rodents. S. solidus can be found in areas of western and eastern North America, including Alaska and provinces of Canada, Europe, and Eurasia.

Annotation

The gene predictions were made by the Parasite Genomics group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and WormBase, as part of the 50 Helminth Genomes Initiative (Helminth Genomes Consortium, unpublished). An in-house pipeline was developed that used MAKER to generate high-quality annotations by integrating evidence from multiple sources: ab initio gene predictions from AUGUSTUS, GeneMark-ES, and SNAP; projected annotation from C. elegans (using GenBlastG) and the taxonomically nearest reference helminth genome (using RATT); and ESTs, mRNAs and proteins from related organisms aligned to the genome using BLAST, with refinement of alignments using Exonerate.